Comments on: Connectively defeated again!

By: jennymackness

jennymackness — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:36:11 +0000

Thank you Matthias, Grainne, John, Zemina and Keith for your sympathetic comments, which made have helped to reconnect me!

By: CCK08: Coming to Know « Clyde Street

CCK08: Coming to Know « Clyde Street — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:16:37 +0000

[...] I knew I was not alone! I had accessed Mike’s blog through Jenny Mackness‘ post about connective defeat. Olive would be pointing out to me that I am using Jenny at three removes from the action. Jenny [...]

By: Zemina Hasham

Zemina Hasham — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:54:07 +0000

Hi Jenny,

I just read through the issues you had with joining your session. If you encounter any more issues with Elluminate, just contact our help desk at 866-388-8674 and we’ll do our best to help you! You can also reach me – my contact information is below.

Thanks!

Zemina Hasham
Senior Director, Client Services
Elluminate Inc.
Email: ZeminaH@elluminate.com

By: Human side of connectivism « Suifaijohnmak’s Weblog

Human side of connectivism « Suifaijohnmak’s Weblog — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:36:24 +0000

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By: suifaijohnmak

suifaijohnmak — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:29:35 +0000

Hi Jenny,
I feel sorry for that failed connection you experienced. This is similar to the feeling that we have iwhen our trusted friend failed to turn up in an appointment on time.
So, I think you have touched deeply on the human side on connectivism. That’s sometimes we experienced disappointments due to the failure of technology affordance.

I have also visited Ailsa’s blog, and have responded to hers’ in my blog.
I have always pondered on the psychological impacts of connectivism on people and networks (social and all other related community of practice) (but that is beyond behaviourism, constructivism etc. because they have not addressed the technology affordance at the time of their creation).
I am aware that “connectivists” may think that such psychological approach will temper the “new learning theory” but still think this is absolutely necessary to off set the side (or negative) effects due to connectivism.
Do you think such an “art” and “science” of human aspects in connectivism be useful?
Cheers.

By: Grainne Conole

Grainne Conole — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:44:26 +0000

Jenny i am so so sorry you had such a bad experience! I have recently completed a spanish course and could never connect to the audio conferences and found it so frustrating – some days i wanted to cry and shout at the same time (and admit i might have done a bit of both ) Slides are in slideshare glad u found the link and there will be an audio so check with george and stephen about that. Also it wasn’t 143 slides – an annoying feature of putting mac presentations on slideshare it counts every interactive bit as a slide!!!!

Welcome further thoughts from u if and when! u get a chance to see the presentation properly!!

By: Matthias Melcher

Matthias Melcher — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:36:46 +0000

Thanks for reminding us that this much improvising (as tonight) is really too much of geekiness. I was already a little bit proud that the DEcentralized way of finding the elluminate URL address again had defeated the centralized, single point of failure, Umanitoba hub. But it is not your fault of being “not super confident with technology”.

On the contrary: YOU did it right, and we succeeded only because we tried redundant alternate ways that are necessary if one is NOT confident that the primary way works: TheDaily copy of the link – failed, last Wednesday’s daily – failed, secondlast Wednesday’s Daily – worked, and then Twitter and Delicious copies of the URL.